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510 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
ce (No. 170), which bears, however, internal evidence (vv. 3, 4) of having been written after the ex pulsion of the Peisistratids. But the favors he had received from the Peisistratids, and especially from Hipparchus, did not prevent him from speak ing of the death of his patron as "a great light arising upon the Athenians," in an epigram (No. 187), which we may suppose to have been inscribed upon the base of the statues set up to Harmedius and Aristogeiton after the expulsion of Hippies, B. C. 510. (Paus. 1.8.5.) It was probably the next period of his life which Simonides spent in Thessaly, under the patronage of the Aleuads and Seopads, whose names, according to Theocritus (Theoc. 16.34) were only preserved from oblivion by the beautiful poems in which the great Ceian bard celebrated the victories gained by their swift horses in the sacred games. Of these poems we still possess a considerable portion of the celebrated Epinician Ode, on the victory of Scopas with the four-horsed c
660 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
ary with Archilochus ; and the date assigned to him by the chronographers is Ol. 29. 1 or 3, B. C. 665/4 or 662/1 (Syncell. p. 213; Hieronym. apud A. Maium, Script. Vet. vol. viii. p. 333; Clem. Alex. Strom. vol. i. p. 333; Cyril. c. Julian. vol. i. p. 12). The statement of Suidas that he flourished 490 years after the Trojan War, would, according to the vulgar era, the epoch of Eratosthenes, place him at (1183 -- 490=) B. C. 693; or, according to the era of Democritus, at (1150 -- 490=) B. C. 660, which agrees with the chronographers. (See Clinton, F. H. vol. i. s. aa. 712, 665, 662; and Welcker, as cited below.) Works The works of Simonides, according to Suidas (s. v.), consisted of an elegy in two books, and iambic poems; or, according to the other notice in Suidas (s. v. *Simmi/as), iambic and other miscellaneous poems, and an Archaeology of the Samians (a)rxaiologi/an tw=n *Sami/wn). From the comparison of these two passages, Welcker thinks that the elegiac poem mentioned in
477 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
a xrh=ma h)=n o( lo/gos sou, e)gw\ de\ u(p) a)noi/as ou)de\n au)to\n f)/mhn ei)=nai (Plutarch, Consol. ad Apollon. p. 105a; Aelian, Ael. VH 9.41). The story certainly bears a very suspicious likeness to the well-known tale of Croesus and Solon. Silmonides had completed his eightieth year, when his long poetical career at Athens was crowned by the victory which he gained with the dithyrambic chorus, in the archonship of Adeimantus, two years later than the battle of Plataeae (Ol. 75. 3/4, B. C. 477), being the fifty-sixth prize which he had carried off (Epig. 203, 204). It must have been shortly after this that he was invited to Syracuse by Hiero, at whose court he lived till his death in B. C. 467. On his way to Sicily he appears to have visited Magna Graecia, and at Tarentum he is said to have been a second time miraculously preserved from destruction as the reward of his piety (Liban. vol. iv. p. 1101, Reiske; Epig. 183, 184). He served Hiero by his wisdom as well as by his art,
476 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
ancient authorities are so fully collected and discussed, that it is unnecessary to refer to any except the most important of them. Sirmonides was born at Julis, in the island of Ceos, in Ol. 56. 1, B. C. 556, as we learn from one of his own epigrams (No. 203 * The numbers of the fragments quoted in this article are those of Schneidewin's edition.), in which he celebrates a victory which he gained at Athens, at the age of 80 years, in the archonship of Adeimantus, that is, in Ol. 75. 4, B. C. 476; and this date is confirmed by other authorities, and by the date of his death, which took place at the age of 89 (Suid.) or 90 (Mar. Par.), in Ol. 78. 1, B. C. 467; Lucian (Macrob. 26) extends his life beyond 90 years. (Schn. pp. iii. iv.; Clinton, F. H. s. aa. 556, 476, 467.） His father was named Leoprepes, and his grandfather Hyllichus; but this must have been his maternal grandfather, if, as there is reason to believe, his paternal grandfather was also named Simonides. and was also a
693 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
o/s; Tzetz. Chil. 12.52.) He is generally said to have been contemporary with Archilochus ; and the date assigned to him by the chronographers is Ol. 29. 1 or 3, B. C. 665/4 or 662/1 (Syncell. p. 213; Hieronym. apud A. Maium, Script. Vet. vol. viii. p. 333; Clem. Alex. Strom. vol. i. p. 333; Cyril. c. Julian. vol. i. p. 12). The statement of Suidas that he flourished 490 years after the Trojan War, would, according to the vulgar era, the epoch of Eratosthenes, place him at (1183 -- 490=) B. C. 693; or, according to the era of Democritus, at (1150 -- 490=) B. C. 660, which agrees with the chronographers. (See Clinton, F. H. vol. i. s. aa. 712, 665, 662; and Welcker, as cited below.) Works The works of Simonides, according to Suidas (s. v.), consisted of an elegy in two books, and iambic poems; or, according to the other notice in Suidas (s. v. *Simmi/as), iambic and other miscellaneous poems, and an Archaeology of the Samians (a)rxaiologi/an tw=n *Sami/wn). From the comparison of
528 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
r, who was a bitter rival of Simonides, makes this early poetic discipline a subject of reproach, designating him and Bacchylides as tou\s ma/qontas, as if they had been poets merely by instruction, and not by inspiration. (See further, Schneidewin, pp. vi.--viii.) From his native island Simonides proceeded to Athens, probably on the invitation of Hipparchus, who attached him to his society by great rewards (Plat. Hipparch. p. 228c.; Aelian, Ael. VH 8.2). The reign of Hipparchus was from B. C. 528 to 514, so that Simonides probably spent the best years of his life at the tyrant's court. Anacreon lived at the court of Hipparchus at the same time, but we have no evidence of any intimate relations between the two poets, except an epitaph upon Anacreon, which is ascribed to Simonides (Fr. 171, Schn.; Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 136, No. 49. s. 55). Another of the great poets then at the court of Hipparchus was the dithyrambic poet LASUS, Pindar's teacher, who engaged in poetical contests w
489 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
e. (Schn. p. xv.) Whether in consequence of this calamity, or on account of the impending Persian invasion, or for some other reason, Simonides returned to Athens, and soon had the noblest opportunity of employing his poetic powers in the celebration of the great events of the Persian wars. At the request of Miltiades, he composed an epigram for the statue of Pan, which the Athenians dedicated after the battle of Marathon (No. 188). In the following year, in the archonship of Aristeides, B. C. 489, he conquered Aeschylus in the contest for the prize which the Athenians offered for an elegy on those who fell at Marathon (Fr. 58, Epig. 149). Ten years later, he composed, at the request of the Amphictyons, the epigrams which were inscribed upon the tomb of the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae, as well as an encomium on the same heroes (Epig. 150-155, Fr. 9); and he also celebrated the battles of Artemisium and Salamis, and the great men who commanded in them (Fr. 2-8, Epig. 157-160, 19
467 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
at the court of Syracuse. His life extended from about the first usurpation of Peisistratus to the end of the Persian wars, from Ol. 56. 1, to Ol. 78. 1, B. C. 556-467. The chief authorities for his life, besides the ancient writers, and the historians of Greek literature (Müller, Ulrici, Bode, Bernhardy, &c.) are the two works ofC. 476; and this date is confirmed by other authorities, and by the date of his death, which took place at the age of 89 (Suid.) or 90 (Mar. Par.), in Ol. 78. 1, B. C. 467; Lucian (Macrob. 26) extends his life beyond 90 years. (Schn. pp. iii. iv.; Clinton, F. H. s. aa. 556, 476, 467.） His father was named Leoprepes, and his grandh he had carried off (Epig. 203, 204). It must have been shortly after this that he was invited to Syracuse by Hiero, at whose court he lived till his death in B. C. 467. On his way to Sicily he appears to have visited Magna Graecia, and at Tarentum he is said to have been a second time miraculously preserved from destruction as
556 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
s, and celebrated their exploits; and in his extreme old age, he found an honoured retreat at the court of Syracuse. His life extended from about the first usurpation of Peisistratus to the end of the Persian wars, from Ol. 56. 1, to Ol. 78. 1, B. C. 556-467. The chief authorities for his life, besides the ancient writers, and the historians of Greek literature (Müller, Ulrici, Bode, Bernhardy, &c.) are the two works of Schneidewin (Simonidis Cei Carminis Reliquiae, Brunsv. 1835, 8vo.) and Richtzt, Schleusingen, 1836, 4to), in which the ancient authorities are so fully collected and discussed, that it is unnecessary to refer to any except the most important of them. Sirmonides was born at Julis, in the island of Ceos, in Ol. 56. 1, B. C. 556, as we learn from one of his own epigrams (No. 203 * The numbers of the fragments quoted in this article are those of Schneidewin's edition.), in which he celebrates a victory which he gained at Athens, at the age of 80 years, in the archonship
665 BC (search for this): entry simonides-bio-1
ginally a native of Samos, whence, by a curious parallel to the history of Archilochus, he led a colony to the neighbouring island of Amorgos, one of the Cyclades or Sporades, where he founded three cities, Minoa, Aegialus, and Arcesine, in the first of which he fixed his own abode. (Comp. Strab. x. p.487; Steph. Byz. s. v. *)Amorgo/s; Tzetz. Chil. 12.52.) He is generally said to have been contemporary with Archilochus ; and the date assigned to him by the chronographers is Ol. 29. 1 or 3, B. C. 665/4 or 662/1 (Syncell. p. 213; Hieronym. apud A. Maium, Script. Vet. vol. viii. p. 333; Clem. Alex. Strom. vol. i. p. 333; Cyril. c. Julian. vol. i. p. 12). The statement of Suidas that he flourished 490 years after the Trojan War, would, according to the vulgar era, the epoch of Eratosthenes, place him at (1183 -- 490=) B. C. 693; or, according to the era of Democritus, at (1150 -- 490=) B. C. 660, which agrees with the chronographers. (See Clinton, F. H. vol. i. s. aa. 712, 665, 662; and
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